INTERNATIONAL: CHINA PILGRIMAGE - Dogen and Hanshan Sites

Travel to China with Sensei Kaz Tanahashi and Sensei Peter Levitt April 18 - May 3, 2017. Visit Tiantong Monastery where the great thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Dogen was trained by his teacher Rujing. We also visit the nearby cave where the legendary hermit-poet Hanshan lived and used the cave walls to write his poems.

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Thomas Merton: Hubris in spiritual leadership

The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice, but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility. And if the sheer force of his own self-confidence communicates itself to other people and gives them the impression that he really is a saint, such a man can wreck a whole city or a religious order or even a nation. The world is covered with scars that have been left in its flesh by visionaries like these.
~Thomas Merton